The Chancery Bar

Providing solutions to legal problems across the whole spectrum of property, finance and business.

• Litigate before all courts in England and Wales ranging from the District Judge in the County Court to the House of Lords, as well as appearing before tribunals such as the Lands Tribunal, Leasehold Valuation Tribunal and Land Registry adjudicators.

• Represent clients at arbitrations, mediations and other forms of ADR and act as arbitrators and mediators.

• Draft and advise upon a wide variety of commercial and private client documentation.

• Advise upon a wide range of transactions in all spheres of chancery work, including company, insolvency and commercial as well as the traditional Chancery fields of property (real and intellectual), trusts and tax.

• Advise and (where permitted) act as advocates in relation to overseas disputes and transactions.

Litigation and transactional advice and drafting for businesses and private individuals is undertaken principally in the following areas:-

• Banking including security, charges, guarantees, and consumer credit.
  
• Charities
  
• Commercial contracts and breach of contract
• Companies including shareholders’ disputes, s 459 petitions, reconstructions, share dealings, and directors’ duties and directors’ disqualification.
• Competition
  
• Court of Protection including deputyships, receiverships, lasting and enduring powers of attorney, statutory wills and gifts and capacity issues.
  
• Financial Services and the rules of the SIB and the SROs, commodities and derivatives markets and the Stock Exchange.
  
• Fraud including constructive trusts and tracing.
  
• Franchising and other business associations.
  
• Injunctions and equitable remedies, including freezing and search orders.
  
• Insolvency and Restructuring including bankruptcy, liquidations, administrations and receiverships.
  
• Intellectual Property including confidential information, copyright, trade marks, passing off and computer law.
  
• Joint ownership
  
• Landlord and tenant including business, agricultural and residential tenancies, housing associations and leasehold enfranchisement
  
• Media entertainment and sports.
  
• Mortgages
  
• Partnerships including drafting and ADR, LLPs, associations, friendly societies, trade unions and clubs.
  
• Pensions including occupational pension schemes, self-administered schemes, individual pension plans, and the Pensions Ombudsman.
  
• Probate, administration of estates and family provision.
  
• Professional negligence and indemnity insurance and reinsurance.
  
• Real property including sale of land, covenants, licences, commercial and other conveyancing, easements, rights of way, light, water, highways and commons.
  
• Restraint of trade.
  
• Revenue including the taxation aspects of all these fields, tax planning, and revenue litigation.
  
• Torts in the property and commercial fields, including nuisance, trespass and conversion.
  
• Trusts, settlements and wills including interpretation, drafting, and claims for breach of trust.